Retro-computing OSes on a Raspberry Pi

Paul

So I bought a Raspberry Pi to scratch my itch for retrocomputing, basically because I haven't the technical skills to maintain/fix forty-year-old hardware. The ability to swap OSes easily by swapping an SD card and rebooting is very nice too. The model I bought (Pi 400) is built into a small keyboard case like the computers of yore too, so that's nice. Ultimately I've got a goal of using the early 80s-era computer magazine archives on Internet Archive to source fun computer programs to type in to their native BASICs and whatnot, Do some old school programming, y'know?

I know about C64 Forever and RISC OS (even if I can't get the internet working on the latter), and I'm exploring options for the Apple II and ZX Sinclair. But I'm wondering what else might be out there that's interesting. I'm particularly hoping to find some more obscure stuff like GEM, Coleco EOS, TRSDOS, and so on.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Mike, Slightly Yellowed

Not quite what you're looking for but I think it's worth mentioning BMC64 in this context. It runs on a Pi3 (or less, a bit) and is a "bare metal" port of VICE, and makes for a very acceptable Commodore 64.

I was going to link to a Lemon64 thread here but welp.

Ed

It's a genius feature that swapping an SD card puts you in a new alternate universe. It means you can experiment with bare metal products and different distributions.

Here's a bare metal Beeb (aka BBC Micro from Acorn)

high res monochrome illustrated text adventure screen

Paul

Oooo, that's a good one, @Ed . Bookmarked for trying out on the weekend.

@Mike, Slightly Yellowed Are you getting a "blocked" response from Lemon64's website too, or is it just me?

geo

Paul Something in my brain spiked re: Lemon64 and blocking, I recall many years ago someone saying on Twitter (remember that?) that Lemon64 periodically blocks Telstra IP addresses. Maybe that's what's happening to you? I recall back then I could access the site on my desktop at home, but out and about on my phone I couldn't.

Mike, Slightly Yellowed

@Paul @geo - Lemon64 got taken out by some kind of DDoS or attack recently, it's currently down. There was a message up for a few days about it, but I haven't heard it's supposed to be back or anything yet. I'd guess any issues will still be related to that.